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fix(ipn/proxies): restore getproxytimeout for proxyFor lock-read guard
varunagarwal-pro Sep 9, 2026
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fix(intra): don't discard rwext read/write deadlines when TCP_USER_TI…
varunagarwal-pro Sep 12, 2026
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fix(dialers/retrier): re-apply read/write deadlines on every call
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fix(rwconn): scope rwext's deadline-disabling zero-copy path to *net.…
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protect: clamp outbound TCP MSS to mitigate PMTUD-blackhole silent st…
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debug: add temporary instrumentation for Zee5/PMTUD-blackhole investi…
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com: propagate abrupt TCP RST instead of a graceful FIN when a relaye…
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dns: recognize upstream loopback-sinkhole answers (127.0.0.1/::1) as …
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fix(rwconn): grant warmed TCP conns a longer idle-read grace period
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fix(intra): remove idle-read deadline entirely for warm TCP conns
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fix(ipn): short-interval TCP keepalive for Exit-proxied conns
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54 changes: 48 additions & 6 deletions intra/common.go
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Expand Up @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ package intra
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"io"
"math/rand"
"net"
"net/netip"
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -312,12 +313,20 @@ func (h *baseHandler) forward(local, remote net.Conn, smm *FlowSummary) {
isrwext := false
didSet := false
timeoutsecs := 0
// enable core.Pipe (sendfile/zero-copy) optimizations on TCP if
// read & write deadlines are not set (as in rwext is effectively
// a no-op) by unwrapping the underlying remote conn from rwext.
// enable core.Pipe (sendfile/zero-copy) optimizations on TCP only
// when no read/write deadline is actually configured (timeoutsecs
// <= 0), in which case rwext is a no-op wrapper and unwrapping is
// safe. Do NOT unwrap merely because didSet is true: SetTimeout
// (via core.SetTimeoutSockOpt) only sets TCP_USER_TIMEOUT, which
// bounds unacknowledged *writes*, not idle *reads*. If remote is
// unwrapped here while a positive timeoutsecs is configured, the
// only mechanism that can bound a stalled Read() (rwext's
// extendr/extendw, which set a real per-call deadline) is lost,
// and a peer that silently stops sending (no RST/FIN) causes
// Read() -- and thus this whole forward() -- to block forever.
if r, ok := remote.(rwext); ok {
isrwext = true
if timeoutsecs, didSet = r.SetTimeout(); didSet || timeoutsecs <= 0 {
if timeoutsecs, didSet = r.SetTimeout(); timeoutsecs <= 0 {

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[bug · medium]
Keeping the rwext wrapper here changes connection teardown semantics. rwext only embeds net.Conn, so it does not implement CloseRead/CloseWrite (note the commented-out core.DuplexCloser assertion in intra/rwconn.go). As a result, core.CloseOp(remote, core.CopR) / core.CloseOp(remote, core.CopW) in upload/download no longer matches core.TCPConn/core.DuplexCloser and falls through to the generic io.Closer case, i.e. a full Close() instead of a half-close.

Previously remote was unwrapped whenever SetTimeout set a socket option (didSet), so for the usual *net.TCPConn egress these were real CloseRead/CloseWrite calls. Since upload and download copy concurrently over the same remote, the first direction to finish will now forcibly close the socket and abort the other direction (truncated response / RST) for any user with a positive dialer timeout. Please preserve half-close, e.g. by forwarding CloseRead/CloseWrite from rwext, before keeping the wrapper.

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Retaining the rwext wrapper when timeoutsecs > 0 changes the concrete type handed to core.CloseOp in upload/download. rwext only embeds net.Conn and defines no CloseRead/CloseWrite, so it satisfies neither core.TCPConn (which embeds DuplexCloser) nor DuplexCloser. core.CloseOp(remote, core.CopW)/CopR therefore falls through to the io.Closer branch and performs a full Close(), whereas the previously unwrapped *net.TCPConn produced a proper half-close (CloseWrite/CloseRead).

This matters for plain TCP conns with a configured dialer read/write timeout: SetTimeout used to return didSet == true (TCP_USER_TIMEOUT set on the *net.TCPConn), so remote was unwrapped; now it stays rwext. When upload finishes first (client closed its write side) while download is still reading the response, the full Close() tears down the egress conn and can truncate the response. Consider having rwext implement CloseRead/CloseWrite (delegating to the underlying conn when it is a DuplexCloser/*net.TCPConn), or otherwise preserve the previous half-close behavior when a timeout is configured.

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Retaining rwext whenever a timeout is configured (timeoutsecs > 0) changes close semantics, not just deadline behavior. upload/download call core.CloseOp(remote, CopW/CopR), but rwext only embeds net.Conn and implements no CloseRead/CloseWrite (see the TODO in rwconn.go). So core.CloseOp no longer matches core.TCPConn/core.DuplexCloser and falls through to io.Closer, performing a full Close() on the shared remote conn instead of a TCP half-close. Previously, when a timeout was set (e.g. *net.TCPConn via SetTimeoutSockOpt, or *demuxconn), remote was unwrapped to the concrete conn and the half-close (FIN/SHUT_WR) was issued. When one direction finishes first (e.g. the client half-closes after its request), a full close now tears down the still-active opposite direction, which can truncate/reset the response. Consider having rwext expose CloseRead/CloseWrite (delegating to the wrapped conn when it implements core.DuplexCloser) so half-close is preserved now that rwext is kept for the timeout case.

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Regression from keeping remote wrapped: with a positive timeout configured (the common case — SetTimeout() returns didSet=true, secs>0), remote now stays a rwext. But rwext only embeds net.Conn (no CloseRead/CloseWrite), so it does NOT implement core.TCPConn/core.DuplexCloser. Consequently core.CloseOp(remote, core.CopR) in download() and core.CloseOp(remote, core.CopW) in upload() now fall through to case io.Closer in core/closer.go and invoke rwext.Close() — a full close of the upstream conn instead of the intended half-close.

Since upload and download run concurrently and share remote, whichever returns first now tears down both directions. E.g. upload's CopW (FIN after the app half-closes its write) will kill download's still-in-flight read, truncating the response; symmetrically download's CopR aborts upload's in-flight writes. Previously the unwrapped conn (*dialers.retrier/*splitter/*net.TCPConn) implemented DuplexCloser, so CopR/CopW were true half-closes. Suggest making rwext implement CloseRead()/CloseWrite() delegating to rw.Unwrap() (so CloseOp keeps working after this change).

remote = r.Unwrap() // c may be *net.TCPConn or *demuxconn or *dialers.retrier|splitter
}
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -568,8 +577,41 @@ func (h *baseHandler) Reset() {
log.I("com: %s: handler reset", h.proto)
}

// aborter is implemented by conns (currently just *netstack.GTCPConn) that
// can forcibly terminate with a TCP RST, as opposed to a graceful FIN.
type aborter interface {
Abort()
}

// resetOrClose closes op on c, unless err is a genuine abnormal error (not a
// plain io.EOF, which indicates the peer closed gracefully) and c supports
// aborting -- in which case a TCP RST is sent instead of a graceful FIN.
//
// This addresses a previously-known gap (see the old "TODO: Propagate TCP
// RST using local.Abort(), on appropriate errors" note this replaces):
// download() closing the app-facing conn's write-half gracefully (FIN) even
// when the actual cause was an abnormal upstream failure (eg: our own
// idle-read timeout firing because the remote peer silently stopped
// sending) meant the app could observe what looks like a clean, complete
// close -- rather than an unambiguous connection-reset -- for a connection
// that, in fact, terminated abnormally. Some HTTP clients treat a graceful
// close of an in-flight response as ambiguous/retryable at best, or a
// silently-truncated "complete" response at worst; a RST is unambiguous.
func resetOrClose(c io.Closer, op core.CloserOp, err error) {
if err != nil && err != io.EOF {
if a, ok := c.(aborter); ok && a != nil && core.IsNotNil(a) {
// DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION (temporary, remove once Zee5/PMTUD
// investigation is closed): confirms this RST-on-error path
// actually engages (vs falling through to a graceful close).
log.I("com: dbg: resetOrClose: aborting (RST) %T on err: %v", c, err)

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[maintainability · low]
This DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION line fires on every abnormal (non-EOF) copy failure and logs at Info level with the full error, on a path that can be hit frequently (e.g. every idle-read timeout, every peer reset). The line itself notes it is temporary, so please remove it before this is committed, or at least gate it behind the verbose/debug logger so it does not add production log volume.

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log.I("com: dbg: resetOrClose: aborting (RST) %T on err: %v", c, err)
log.VV("com: resetOrClose: aborting (RST) %T on err: %v", c, err)

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Leftover temporary DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION log on the connection-abort path (the comment above marks it as to-be-removed). It fires at Info level for every aborted connection and echoes the raw error, adding production log noise; please remove it before committing.

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This temporary DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION log.I sits on the connection-teardown path and fires unconditionally for every abnormal close that takes the RST branch, so it will emit one Info-level line (including the raw error) per reset once merged. Please remove it before merge (as the comment above already notes), or gate it behind a verbose/debug flag (e.g. log.VV) if the instrumentation must be retained.

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log.I("com: dbg: resetOrClose: aborting (RST) %T on err: %v", c, err)
log.VV("com: dbg: resetOrClose: aborting (RST) %T on err: %v", c, err)

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Leftover DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION (self-marked "temporary") in a production teardown path: this runs unconditionally via log.I on every abnormal close and logs the error value. Remove it before merge, or at least gate it behind log.VV/log.Debug so it doesn't fire in normal builds.

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log.I("com: dbg: resetOrClose: aborting (RST) %T on err: %v", c, err)
log.VV("com: dbg: resetOrClose: aborting (RST) %T on err: %v", c, err)

a.Abort()
return
}
}
core.CloseOp(c, op)
}

// upload copies data from remote to local, and returns the number of bytes copied and error, if any.
// TODO: Propagate TCP RST using local.Abort(), on appropriate errors.
func upload(id string, local, remote net.Conn, ioch chan<- ioinfo) {
defer core.Recover(core.Exit11, "c.upload."+id)
defer core.CloseOp(local, core.CopR)
Expand All @@ -587,7 +629,7 @@ func upload(id string, local, remote net.Conn, ioch chan<- ioinfo) {

// download copies data from local to remote, and returns the number of bytes copied and error, if any.
func download(id string, local, remote net.Conn) (n int64, err error) {
defer core.CloseOp(local, core.CopW)
defer func() { resetOrClose(local, core.CopW, err) }()

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The RST-on-error propagation is wired only into download(); upload() (intra/common.go:615-628) still does an unconditional graceful defer core.CloseOp(local, core.CopR) even when core.Pipe(remote, local) fails abnormally, and the TODO: Propagate TCP RST using local.Abort(), on appropriate errors note this diff deletes was placed right above upload(). This asymmetry matters more now that warm conns have no read deadline (see rwconn.go deadlines()): on a blackholed/stalled path upload() is the side that observes the failure (its write deadline fires and it returns a non-nil err), while download() may stay blocked in Read() with no deadline, so forward() never reaches its RST path and the app-facing conn only gets a graceful read-half close — the app can hang instead of failing fast. Consider giving upload() the same treatment (promote/hoist err and call resetOrClose(local, core.CopR, err) from its defer), or keep the TODO if that direction is intentionally out of scope.

defer core.CloseOp(remote, core.CopR)

n, err = core.Pipe(local, remote)
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Expand Up @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ import (
"github.com/celzero/firestack/intra/log"
"github.com/celzero/firestack/intra/protect"
"github.com/celzero/firestack/intra/settings"
"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
)

type zeroNetAddr struct{}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -67,6 +68,38 @@ const (
// TODO: with context.TODO, expmap's reaper goroutine will leak.
var ippPins = core.NewSieve[netip.AddrPort, string](context.TODO(), "d.ippPins", desync_cache_ttl)

// dbgTCPInfo is a DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION helper (temporary, remove once
// Zee5/PMTUD investigation is closed). It fetches kernel-level TCP_INFO
// stats (retransmits, rtt, last-data-received) for c, if c is backed by a
// real *net.TCPConn (best-effort; returns "" if unavailable). This lets us
// see, precisely at the moment a Read() stalls or times out, whether the
// kernel itself ever observed a retransmit from the peer during the stall
// -- distinguishing a genuine network-path blackhole (no retransmits seen,
// peer/path truly silent) from data arriving-but-undelivered (retransmits
// seen, rx_queue would be non-zero) which would point back at our code.
func dbgTCPInfo(c protect.Conn) string {
sc, ok := c.(syscall.Conn)
if !ok || sc == nil {
return ""
}
raw, err := sc.SyscallConn()
if err != nil || raw == nil {
return ""
}
var info *unix.TCPInfo
var operr error
cerr := raw.Control(func(fd uintptr) {
info, operr = unix.GetsockoptTCPInfo(int(fd), unix.IPPROTO_TCP, unix.TCP_INFO)
})
if cerr != nil || operr != nil || info == nil {
return fmt.Sprintf("tcpinfo-err(ctl=%v,op=%v)", cerr, operr)
}
return fmt.Sprintf("tcpi[state=%d rtt=%dus rttvar=%dus retx=%d total_retx=%d last_data_recv=%dms last_data_sent=%dms unacked=%d snd_mss=%d rcv_mss=%d pmtu=%d]",
info.State, info.Rtt, info.Rttvar, info.Retransmits, info.Total_retrans,
info.Last_data_recv, info.Last_data_sent, info.Unacked,
info.Snd_mss, info.Rcv_mss, info.Pmtu)
}

// retrier implements the DuplexConn interface and must
// be typecastable to *net.TCPConn (see: xdial.DialTCP)
// inheritance: go.dev/play/p/mMiQgXsPM7Y
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -308,6 +341,13 @@ func (r *retrier) dialStratLocked() (strat int32, err error) {
strat = r.dialerOpts.Strat
}

// DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION (temporary, remove once Zee5/PMTUD investigation
// is closed): confirms at the dial layer exactly which split-strategy is
// actually being used per attempt, independent of what the UI/settings
// claim is configured.
log.I("retrier: dbg: %s: dialStrat: %s: strat=%d auto=%t retryStrat=%d split=%t retryCount=%d/%d",
r.dialerID(), r.raddr, strat, auto, retryStrat, split, r.retryCount, r.maxRetries)

return
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -476,9 +516,25 @@ func (r *retrier) Read(buf []byte) (n int, err error) {

r.mu.Lock()
c := r.conn // r.conn may be provisional or final connection
rdeadline := r.readDeadline
r.mu.Unlock()

if c != nil {
// always (re)apply the caller's current read deadline (as set via
// SetReadDeadline, eg: rwext.extendr) to the underlying conn before
// reading from it; otherwise, once the retry sequence completes
// (see below), this deadline is applied to c just once and never
// again, so subsequent idle reads on c can block indefinitely even
// as callers keep extending r.readDeadline on every call.
_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
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[bug · high]
This applies the caller's deadline unconditionally, including during the pre-retry phase (r.retryCompleted() is still false), which contradicts the retrier's own design: SetReadDeadline above deliberately avoids touching c until the retry completes, and the retrier sets its own bounded read deadline on the provisional conn (teedFirstWrite line 594 sets c.SetReadDeadline(now+readWait); retryLocked line 459 sets it on newConn).

Crucially, rdeadline is frequently the zero time here: forward() unwraps rwext when no timeout is configured, and when rwext does wrap the retrier, rwext.WriteTo/ReadFrom call extendForever() (which zeroes the retrier's deadlines) before invoking retrier.WriteTo/ReadFrom. Also note WriteTo/ReadFrom now stream via r (this file), so all of their reads hit this line.

Result: c's read deadline is cleared, so the first read can block indefinitely on a peer that silently stops responding, and the timeout error that is supposed to trigger a retry (see the retry loop at line 524) never occurs. Suggest only (re)applying the caller deadline after the retry has completed, and only when it is non-zero.

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// always (re)apply the caller's current read deadline (as set via
// SetReadDeadline, eg: rwext.extendr) to the underlying conn before
// reading from it; otherwise, once the retry sequence completes
// (see below), this deadline is applied to c just once and never
// again, so subsequent idle reads on c can block indefinitely even
// as callers keep extending r.readDeadline on every call.
_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
// (re)apply the caller's current read deadline to the underlying
// conn, but only once the retry has completed: during retry the
// retrier manages its own read deadline (see teedFirstWrite/
// retryLocked and SetReadDeadline above), and rdeadline is often
// zero here (eg: rwext.extendForever), which would clear that
// deadline and stall the very first read.
if r.retryCompleted() && !rdeadline.IsZero() {
_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Serialize deadline application with deadline updates.

protect.Conn is net.Conn. Read and Write release r.mu before applying their deadline snapshots. A concurrent SetReadDeadline or SetWriteDeadline can therefore apply a newer deadline first, after which the snapshot overwrites it. This can cause an early timeout or remove a deadline. r.conn replacement also occurs under r.mu, so hold the lock through both c.SetReadDeadline and c.SetWriteDeadline. A check performed before the setter alone does not prevent this race.

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In `@intra/dialers/retrier.go` around lines 479 - 489, Update the deadline
application in the read and write paths around protect.Conn so r.mu remains held
through the corresponding c.SetReadDeadline or c.SetWriteDeadline call. Keep
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[bug · high]
Applying the caller's stored deadline unconditionally on every Read (including during the retry window) overrides the short read deadline that teedFirstWrite (line ~655) and retryWriteReadLocked (line ~499) deliberately set on the conn to trigger a retry. SetReadDeadline explicitly avoids this interference ("Don't enforce read deadlines until after the retry is complete. Retry relies on setting its own read deadline..."). Concretely, when the caller has not set a read deadline (r.readDeadline is zero, e.g. the retrier is used unwrapped because ReadTimeoutSec<=0), this line clears c's deadline, so the first read after the first write blocks indefinitely and the retry never fires; when a deadline is set, it replaces the short retry deadline with the (typically longer) caller deadline, delaying the retry. Suggest applying it only once the retry is complete, mirroring SetReadDeadline.

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_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
if r.retryCompleted() {
_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
}

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[bug · high]
This unconditional deadline re-application runs even while the retry sequence is still pending (retryCompleted() == false), which contradicts the deliberate invariant documented on SetReadDeadline ("Don't enforce read deadlines until after the retry is complete. Retry relies on setting its own read deadline, and we don't want this to interfere.").

Concretely: teedFirstWrite sets a short RTT-based read deadline on the provisional conn (c.SetReadDeadline(time.Now().Add(readWait)), line ~655) so a silent peer triggers a split retry quickly. This new call overwrites it with the caller's (usually much longer) idle deadline, so the first read no longer times out as designed and the retry is delayed. Worse, if the caller's deadline is the zero value (e.g. ReadTimeoutSec <= 0, where extendr calls SetDeadline(time.Time{})), this clears the retry deadline entirely and the read can block indefinitely — retries never fire, which is the opposite of the intended fix.

Gate the refresh on retry completion: the post-retry idle reads this change targets all happen with retryCompleted() == true, so the stated hang is still fixed while the retrier keeps control of its own deadline during retry.

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_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
if r.retryCompleted() {
_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
}

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This unconditional SetReadDeadline also runs while the retry sequence is still in progress (c is the provisional conn, r.retryCompleted() is false), which contradicts the retrier's own design: SetReadDeadline deliberately defers applying the caller deadline until retry completes ("Retry relies on setting its own read deadline, and we don't want this to interfere"), and teedFirstWrite/retryWriteReadLocked set the conn's short retry deadline via readTimeoutLocked() (now + r.timeout, the RTT-derived timeout).

Because rdeadline is the caller deadline (e.g. rwext.extendr's ReadTimeoutSec, default 10s) and r.timeout is the short RTT-derived window, this call overrides the retry deadline before the first read, delaying the retry trigger. Worse, when no read timeout is configured (rwext is unwrapped in baseHandler.forward when timeoutsecs <= 0, so no one ever calls SetReadDeadline), r.readDeadline is the zero value, so this clears the retry's short deadline entirely — the first read then blocks without the short timeout and the retry never fires (the exact blackhole hang the retry exists to handle). Gate on retry completion, consistent with SetReadDeadline's contract.

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_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
// only apply the caller's deadline once the retry sequence is complete;
// during retry the retrier manages its own short read deadline (see
// teedFirstWrite/retryWriteReadLocked and SetReadDeadline).
if r.retryCompleted() {
_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
}

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[bug · high]
This applies the caller's read deadline to c even while the retry sequence is still in progress. But teedFirstWrite (see its c.SetReadDeadline(time.Now().Add(readWait))) installs a short, strategy-derived read deadline on the same conn specifically so the first read fails fast and triggers a split retry, and SetReadDeadline documents the invariant: "Don't enforce read deadlines until after the retry is complete. Retry relies on setting its own read deadline, and we don't want this to interfere." During the retry window r.readDeadline is the caller's deadline (e.g. rwext.extendr sets ~10s for a cold conn, via SetReadDeadline which intentionally does not touch c until retry completes), so this line overwrites the retrier's short deadline and delays the retry by seconds; if r.readDeadline is zero (e.g. ReadTimeoutSec=0, or a caller that never sets one) it clears the deadline entirely and the first read can block indefinitely, defeating the retry path. Only refresh the deadline once the retry is done.

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_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
if r.retryCompleted() {
_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
}

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[bug · high]
Applying the caller's read deadline unconditionally here also runs before the retry sequence completes, and that breaks the retrier's own retry timeouts. teedFirstWrite deliberately arms the provisional conn with a short deadline (c.SetReadDeadline(time.Now().Add(readWait)), where readWait = readTimeoutLocked() ≈ max(rtt*2, 9s/spread), typically 1–9s) so a silent peer triggers a retry. SetReadDeadline documents/enforces this invariant explicitly ("Don't enforce read deadlines until after the retry is complete. Retry relies on setting its own read deadline, and we don't want this to interfere.") by only touching c when r.retryCompleted(). This new line bypasses that guard: in the common path (rwext.extendr sets ~10s by default), it replaces the short retry timeout with the caller's longer deadline, delaying retry-on-stall; and if the caller has no read deadline (rdeadline is the zero time, e.g. ReadTimeoutSec disabled), SetReadDeadline(zero) clears the internal timeout entirely, so the stall read blocks indefinitely and no retry ever fires. Only re-apply the caller's deadline after the retry sequence has completed.

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_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
if r.retryCompleted() {
_ = c.SetReadDeadline(rdeadline)
}


// DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION (temporary, remove once Zee5/PMTUD
// investigation is closed): kernel TCP_INFO snapshot right before
// issuing the read, so we can diff against the post-read snapshot
// below to see exactly what changed (or didn't) at the kernel level
// during this call, especially across a timeout/stall.
preTCPInfo := dbgTCPInfo(c)

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[performance · low]
dbgTCPInfo runs on every Read (two TCP_INFO getsockopt calls + fmt.Sprintf + a log.I line per call), i.e. once per packet on a hot data path. Besides the syscall/allocation cost, logging on every read can flood logs and perturb the timing of the very stalls being investigated. Since this is explicitly temporary instrumentation, consider gating it behind a debug flag/sampling rather than running it unconditionally.

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[performance · medium]
These DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION hooks run unconditionally on the hottest path: every Read now performs two GetsockoptTCPInfo syscalls (each via SyscallConn().Control) plus two string-Sprintfs and a log.I call, and dialStratLocked logs at info level on every dial attempt — all regardless of log level. On a steady-state connection this adds measurable per-read syscall/allocation/logging overhead and floods the logs. Since the code itself states it is temporary, please remove it (or gate it behind a debug flag / build tag) before merging rather than shipping it in the production read path.

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[performance · low]
dbgTCPInfo adds a getsockopt(TCP_INFO) syscall plus a log.I line on every Read call (two snapshots per call). Since the non-optimized WriteTo/ReadFrom branches now stream through r.Read, this cost and log volume applies per chunk on the copy paths as well. This is explicitly temporary debug instrumentation, so it should be removed or gated behind a debug flag before merge rather than left on the hot read path.

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[performance · medium]
dbgTCPInfo acquires the syscall.Conn/RawConn and issues a GetsockoptTCPInfo syscall plus a fmt.Sprintf, and it is invoked twice (pre/post) on every Read — i.e. on the per-packet data path. Because call arguments are evaluated before the call, this expensive work is paid unconditionally even when INFO logging is disabled; log.I's internal level check cannot help. This is a measurable per-read regression in release builds. Please gate the instrumentation behind a log-level / build-tag check (or drop it before merging, as the comment intends).

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preTCPInfo := dbgTCPInfo(c)
var preTCPInfo string
if log.Debug {
preTCPInfo = dbgTCPInfo(c)
}


for reads := range maxEmptyReads {
n, err = c.Read(buf)
if n == 0 && err == nil { // no data and no error
Expand All @@ -488,6 +544,19 @@ func (r *retrier) Read(buf []byte) (n int, err error) {
} // else: check if retry is needed (c == nil or err != nil)
break
}

// DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION (temporary, remove once Zee5/PMTUD
// investigation is closed): post-read snapshot. If Total_retrans
// increased between pre/post while err is a timeout, the kernel
// DID see retransmits from the peer during the stall (data was
// attempted but never fully arrived/ack'd) -- a genuine network
// issue. If Total_retrans is unchanged, the peer never even tried
// to resend, consistent with a silent path blackhole (eg PMTUD)
// upstream of this device entirely.
postTCPInfo := dbgTCPInfo(c)

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[performance · medium]
dbgTCPInfo is called twice on every Read (each doing a syscall.Conn assert, SyscallConn() and a raw.Control getsockopt syscall), and the snapshot is logged unconditionally at Info level on the data path — i.e. per read/chunk on every forwarded TCP connection. This adds measurable syscall/logging overhead to the hot path and can flood logs with local/remote endpoints. Since this is explicitly temporary instrumentation, consider gating it behind a package-level debug flag (or log.Verbose/level V) so it is a no-op in production builds and cannot be left enabled by accident.

log.I("retrier: dbg: %s: read-tcpinfo: [%s<=%s]; pre: %s; post: %s; n=%d err=%v",
r.dialerID(), laddr(c), r.raddr, preTCPInfo, postTCPInfo, n, err)
Comment on lines +557 to +558

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Guard TCP diagnostics with the debug setting.

For a non-nil TCP connection, retrier.Read calls dbgTCPInfo before and after c.Read. The normal splitter path delegates SyscallConn to *net.TCPConn, so each read can execute two unix.GetsockoptTCPInfo calls. log.I is enabled at the default INFO level, and no debug guard suppresses it. Active streams can therefore incur per-read syscall, formatting, and info-log overhead. Guard the complete diagnostic block with settings.Debug, or remove it before release.

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In `@intra/dialers/retrier.go` around lines 557 - 558, Guard the complete TCP
diagnostic block in retrier.Read, including dbgTCPInfo calls and the log.I
statement, behind settings.Debug so normal reads avoid diagnostic syscalls,
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if n == 0 && err == nil {
err = io.ErrNoProgress
}
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r.mu.Lock()
c := r.conn // retry has completed, so r.conn is final and may not need locking?
wdeadline := r.writeDeadline
r.mu.Unlock()
if c == nil {
cerr := log.EE("retrier: write: %s: [] => %s (b: %d, tee: %d), not retrying, but no conn; after: %s",
r.dialerID(), r.raddr, len(b), len(r.tee), core.FmtTimeAsPeriod(start))
return 0, core.JoinErr(cerr, errNilConn)
}

// always (re)apply the caller's current write deadline; see Read() for why.
_ = c.SetWriteDeadline(wdeadline)
n, err := c.Write(b)
if err != nil {
err = log.EE("retrier: write: %s: [%s=>%s]; b: %d/%d (retried? %t); after: %s; err? %v",
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}

if !optimizedWriteTo {
// write to w from c until EOF
b, err = core.Stream(w, c)
// write to w from r (not raw c) until EOF, so that r.Read's
// per-call deadline refresh (see Read()) stays in effect; reading
// from c directly bypasses that refresh and can hang indefinitely
// once the retry sequence above has completed.
b, err = core.Stream(w, r)
bytes += b
}

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}

if !optimizedReadFrom {
// read from reader into c until EOF
b, err = core.Stream(c, reader)
// read from reader into r (not raw c) until EOF; see WriteTo for why.
b, err = core.Stream(r, reader)
bytes += b
}

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8 changes: 5 additions & 3 deletions intra/dnsx/alg.go
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Expand Up @@ -1366,8 +1366,10 @@ func (t *dnsgateway) querySecondary(t2 Transport, uid, fid, network string, msg
result.smm.Blocklists = blocklistnames
result.smm.BlockedTarget = blockedtarget
}
if xdns.AQuadAUnspecified(r) {
// A/AAAA must be 0.0.0.0/::, set UpstreamBlocks to true
if xdns.AQuadAUnspecified(r) || xdns.AQuadALoopback(r) {

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[bug · medium]
The new loopback condition conflicts with this file's existing model of loopback as a legitimate local answer. isLocalIP (line 101) explicitly treats only unspecified 0.0.0.0/:: as a block signal ("unspecified (0.0.0.0/::) signals blocks, not local answers") and groups loopback together with private/link-local as local. Here (and at line 1523 in q) any loopback A/AAAA record is now treated as an upstream block, so legitimate loopback resolutions get misclassified: e.g. hairpin/local services, wildcard DNS hosts such as nip.io/xip.io that intentionally resolve to 127.0.0.1, and any answer set that mixes a routable address with 127.0.0.1/::1. In this branch all real IPs are dropped and replaced with 0.0.0.0/:: (marking the whole domain blocked), and in q() ALG is skipped and the domain is reported blocked. Consider narrowing the check so only answers whose A/AAAA records are all loopback (no routable address) signal a block, or align isLocalIP/hasLocalIPAnswer with the new semantics.

// A/AAAA must be 0.0.0.0/:: (or, for some upstream resolvers,
// sinkholed to loopback 127.0.0.1/::1); either way, set
// UpstreamBlocks to true
result.smm.UpstreamBlocks = true
// discard all other answers
result.ips = append(result.ips, anyaddr4, anyaddr6)
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// for t1, ansin's already evaluated for ans0000 in querySecondary
// (secans.pri is set to true). ansin may be from t2 (if t2 != nil),
// ans64, which is a modified ansin, depending on settings.PtMode
ans0000 := xdns.AQuadAUnspecified(ansin) // ansin is not nil; ans64 may be nil
ans0000 := xdns.AQuadAUnspecified(ansin) || xdns.AQuadALoopback(ansin) // ansin is not nil; ans64 may be nil

if ans0000 {
smm.BlockedTarget = qname
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Expand Up @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ func (t *plus) forward(network string, q *dns.Msg, outSmm *x.DNSSummary, all ...

failed := xdns.IsServFailOrInvalid(ans)
noans := !failed && !xdns.HasAnyAnswer(ans)
ipblock := xdns.HasAQuadAQuestion(q) && xdns.AQuadAUnspecified(ans)
ipblock := xdns.HasAQuadAQuestion(q) && (xdns.AQuadAUnspecified(ans) || xdns.AQuadALoopback(ans))
// HTTPS/SVCB blocks have 0 answer records when blocked
svcbblock := (xdns.HasHTTPQuestion(q) || xdns.HasSVCBQuestion(q)) && noans

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Expand Up @@ -836,8 +836,10 @@ runagain:
} // else: discard ans2 (which is always exclusively a blocked ans from rdns blocklists)

realips := Netip2Csv(xdns.IPs(nonalg))
// ans1 is upstream answer... does upstream block?
ansblocked := xdns.AQuadAUnspecified(ans1)
// ans1 is upstream answer... does upstream block? some public
// ad/tracker-blocking resolvers sinkhole to loopback (127.0.0.1/::1)
// instead of the unspecified address; treat both as upstream blocks.
ansblocked := xdns.AQuadAUnspecified(ans1) || xdns.AQuadALoopback(ans1)

if log.Verbose {
log.V("dns: fwd: 7 for %s[%s] (fid: %s); query %s:%d, r%d, onQueryTime: %s / onAnswerTime: %s, ips: %s; smm[data: %s, status: %d]; new-ans? %t, blocklists? %t, blocked? %t",
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20 changes: 18 additions & 2 deletions intra/ipn/auto.go
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Expand Up @@ -23,6 +23,21 @@ const (
ttl30s = 30 * time.Second
shortdelay = 100 * time.Millisecond
delayForUnhealthyProxies = 2 * time.Second

// STREAMSHIELD HOOK: short-interval TCP keepalive tuning for Exit-proxied
// connections. Some video-CDN/load-balancer stacks (observed: Zee5's
// Akamai-fronted CDN) close idle-but-alive connections at ~120s via a
// clean FIN, and the app's HTTP client fails to transparently retry on
// the dead pooled connection (permanent hang). sockopt.go's global
// defaults (600s idle) are far too slow to matter here. These constants
// are used only when the user enables the existing "TCP keep alive"
// toggle (settings.DialerOpts.LowerKeepAlive / PersistentState.tcpKeepAlive)
// -- best-effort experiment: only helps if the peer's idle-timeout tracks
// raw TCP socket activity (keepalive probes are pure ACKs) rather than
// HTTP-level request/response activity.
exitKeepAliveIdleSec = 20 // secs of inactivity before first probe
exitKeepAliveIntervalSec = 5 // secs between probes
exitKeepAliveCount = 4 // unacked probes before conn is declared dead
)

// auto is a proxy that dials multiple, preset outbounds.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -624,8 +639,9 @@ func maybeKeepAlive2(c net.Conn) (keepingalive, ok bool) {
}

if opts := settings.GetDialerOpts(); opts.LowerKeepAlive {
// adjust socket's keepalive config
lowered := core.SetKeepAliveConfigSockOpt(c)
// STREAMSHIELD HOOK: use the short-interval tuning above instead of
// sockopt.go's slow global defaults (600s idle) -- see const block.
lowered := core.SetKeepAliveConfigSockOpt(c, exitKeepAliveIdleSec, exitKeepAliveIntervalSec, exitKeepAliveCount)

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[bug · medium]
SetKeepAliveConfigSockOpt doesn't only apply the keepalive options — it also derives TCP_USER_TIMEOUT from the same args (usertimeoutms := idle*1000 + interval*count, see intra/core/sockopt.go:112, applied at line 142). Passing (20, 5, 4) therefore silently lowers TCP_USER_TIMEOUT from ~600s (previous no-arg/default call) to ~20s. Unlike keepalive probes, TCP_USER_TIMEOUT applies to active data: if transmitted data remains unacknowledged, or buffered data can't be sent (e.g. a zero-window peer), the connection is forcibly closed after ~20s. On a VPN path with transient network handoffs/stalls or a slow peer, this can abort otherwise-recoverable connections. Please confirm this side effect is intended; if only idle keepalive was meant to change, this call needs a variant that leaves TCP_USER_TIMEOUT alone (or a larger value), and the comment should call out the user-timeout change explicitly.

keepingalive = lowered
ok = lowered
return
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Expand Up @@ -929,7 +929,26 @@ func (px *proxifier) proxyFor(id string) (Proxy, error) {
// Ingress (dummy): no fast path, fall through to general lookup
}

timeout := time.Duration(minWaitPeriodSec/2) * time.Second
// Regression fix: this used to be getproxytimeout (5s) and was
// inadvertently shortened to minWaitPeriodSec/2 (1s) in 8677a52c
// ("core/volatile: cr by muse spark" era commit chain). proxyFor is
// called for every proxy id, including non-wellknown, app-registered
// ids (see isWellknown/ProxyFor above) for which there is NO retry/
// wait fallback -- ProxyFor returns immediately with errProxyNotFound
// for those ids, so this is the *only* window a caller gets to find
// a just-registered proxy. The lookup itself is a cheap RLock'd map
// read (see below), but on loaded/low-RAM devices the paired Lock()
// in AddProxy/RemoveProxy can legitimately hold the mutex for longer
// than 1s during proxy setup/teardown, especially for proxies that do
// real I/O in their constructor. Shortening this guard to 1s turns a
// rare, recoverable stall into a hard, unretried lookup failure for
// any non-wellknown proxy id registered right around this window --
// observed in production as a permanently-failing custom local proxy
// route until the next reconnect. Restoring getproxytimeout (5s)
// keeps this a deadlock-recovery guard (its original documented
// purpose, see the ProxyFor doc-comment above) rather than a
// register-race timeout.
timeout := getproxytimeout

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[bug · medium]
The stated premise for lengthening this guard does not match the code: addOrUpdateProxy runs the proxy constructor (incl. any I/O) before px.add takes the write lock (proxies.go:370), and inside the lock only map writes, cheap atomic Pause/Status (socks5.go:309/321) and the non-blocking queueEvent run - slow Stop/Refresh work is dispatched via core.Go. So the write lock is not held across constructor I/O and isn't held >1s by design. Also, proxyFor does not wait for a future AddProxy; it only blocks on the current lock holder, so a larger timeout cannot fix a "just-registered proxy" race. The only real effect is that synchronous callers block up to 5x longer before failing - and proxyFor is called directly from latency-sensitive paths (HasProxy, the ProxyTo/pinID routing loops, non-wellknown transport ids such as dnsx.Default/dnsx.Preferred built during intra.NewTunnel, whose delay the comment above ProxyFor explicitly says must be avoided on the Android main thread). Please confirm the mutex can actually be held >1s before reverting this, otherwise keep the guard tied to minWaitPeriodSec.

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[performance · medium]
Raising the per-attempt guard to getproxytimeout (5s) doesn't fix the described registration race, because proxyFor's guarded work is an O(1) RLock'd map read: an id that isn't registered yet returns errProxyNotFound immediately (it never consumes the timeout), so this value is not a "window" for finding a just-added proxy. The stated premise also doesn't hold: the write lock is not held across proxy construction/teardown I/O — addOrUpdateProxy builds the proxy before add() takes px.Lock() (see proxies.go:370), old.Stop() is dispatched via core.Go (proxies.go:386), and under the lock only a map write plus cheap Status()/Pause() run. The guard is a deadlock guard ("possibly a deadlock", proxies.go:962), so enlarging it mainly lengthens the stall when the RLock is genuinely blocked. Because ProxyFor may invoke proxyFor twice within its minWaitPeriodSec (2s) retry budget (proxies.go:899), a wellknown id can now block ~10s (≈3s before), and latency-sensitive callers (the Android main service thread during intra.NewTunnel; doh.newTransport, which retries on ErrGetProxyTimeout) can block up to 5s instead of 1s. I'd keep the shorter guard unless a >1s lock hold is actually observed.

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timeout := getproxytimeout
timeout := time.Duration(minWaitPeriodSec/2) * time.Second

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[performance · medium]
This raises the lock-acquisition guard in proxyFor from minWaitPeriodSec/2 (1s) to getproxytimeout (5s). A contended px.Lock() therefore blocks every proxyFor/ProxyFor/ProxyTo caller for up to 5s (and up to ~2x5s for well-known ids, which additionally sleep in ProxyFor's retry path).

The stated rationale does not hold up: proxy construction happens in addOrUpdateProxy before add() takes px.Lock() (see NewWgProxy/fromOpts at intra/ipn/proxy.go:212-270), and removeProxy only deletes the map entry and dispatches Stop() on a goroutine. No write-lock holder performs constructor I/O, so the "Lock() held >1s during setup/teardown" premise is not supported. Since proxyFor is also called from DNS transport constructors during intra.NewTunnel (documented above ProxyFor as running on the Android main thread) and from the per-flow ProxyTo path, a 5x longer guard worsens the worst-case stall. Please substantiate the claimed missed-registration failure or keep the bound short.

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timeout := getproxytimeout
timeout := time.Duration(minWaitPeriodSec/2) * time.Second

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[performance · medium]
Raising this guard from 1s to getproxytimeout (5s) increases the worst-case blocking of every proxyFor/ProxyFor caller on the one path this deadline actually governs: when the RLock in the core.Grx closure is stuck behind a writer. On expiry errGetProxyTimeout is returned, and ProxyFor returns it immediately (line 888's !errors.Is(err, errProxyNotFound) is true), so the extra 4s is pure added latency, not extra waiting-for-registration: it only applies to a genuinely stalled lock, which 5s won't clear any more than 1s will. Meanwhile the stated justification (a px.Lock() hold >1s during proxy setup/teardown) is not supported by this code: addOrUpdateProxy constructs the proxy before pxr.add(p) acquires the lock (proxy.go:238-270), and add()'s locked section only writes the map plus atomic Pause()/Status() and a non-blocking queueEvent (proxies.go:370-448, 1216-1229) — so a legitimate 1s–5s hold that this longer timeout would rescue is not reachable here. Since ProxyFor is documented as being called on the delay-sensitive main service thread (intra.NewTunnel), and doh.newTransport re-enters ProxyFor on ErrGetProxyTimeout, please keep this deadlock-recovery guard short (or introduce a dedicated, shorter constant) unless there is concrete evidence of writers holding px.Lock() for that long.

// go.dev/play/p/xCug1W3OcMH
p, completed := core.Grx("pxr.ProxyFor: "+id, func(_ context.Context) (Proxy, error) {
px.RLock()
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Expand Up @@ -326,14 +326,26 @@ func (g *GTCPConn) RemoteAddr() net.Addr {

func (g *GTCPConn) Write(data []byte) (int, error) {
if c := g.conn(); c != nil {
return c.Write(data)
n, err := c.Write(data)
// DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION (temporary, remove once Zee5/PMTUD
// investigation is closed): app-facing (netstack) side write
// visibility, to check whether the app itself ever stops writing
// (eg: waiting on a stalled read) vs our exit-side relay stalling
// independently.
log.VV("netstack: dbg: gconn(%s): write: b=%d/%d; err=%v", g.o, n, len(data), err)

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[maintainability · low]
This is explicit temporary debug instrumentation (per the adjacent comment) placed on the per-Read/per-Write hot path of the TCP relay. Every Read/Write call now builds a variadic []any (g.o, n, len(data), err) and invokes the logger, even at the default (non-VVERBOSE) level where the body is a no-op; when VVERBOSE is actually enabled it will emit one line per read/write, which is both noisy and can perturb the very timing being investigated. Please remove these two log lines before committing (or gate them behind a level check) rather than shipping them.

return n, err
}
return 0, netError(g, "tcp", g.o+":write", io.ErrClosedPipe)
}

func (g *GTCPConn) Read(data []byte) (int, error) {
if c := g.conn(); c != nil {
return c.Read(data)
n, err := c.Read(data)
// DEBUG-INSTRUMENTATION (temporary, remove once Zee5/PMTUD
// investigation is closed): app-facing (netstack) side read
// visibility, paired with the Write() log above.
log.VV("netstack: dbg: gconn(%s): read: b=%d/%d; err=%v", g.o, n, len(data), err)
return n, err
}
return 0, netError(g, "tcp", g.o+":read", io.ErrNoProgress)
}
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